Some of the topics planned for the SSAI-2005

*updated*
• Difficult airway
• Biological and chemical weapons
• Pharmacokinetics-pharmacodynamics
• Endocrinology for the anaesthetist
• Respiratory physiology
• Assessment of cardiac function
• Echocardiography.
• Malpractice and the anaesthesiologist
• Ambulatory surgery
• Anaesthesia in the white zone
• Transfusion and coagulation
• Perioperative fluid therapy
• Early goal directed therapy
• Cardiovascular monitoring
• Cardiac anaesthesia/intensive care
• Anaesthesia for high risk cardiac patient for non-cardiac surgery
• Anaesthesia for vascular surgery
• Pediatric Anaesthesia/intensive care
• Obstetric anaesthesia/intensive care
• Neuro anaesthesia/intensive care
• Regional anaesthesia
• Chronic pain for the anaesthetist
• Severe Acute Respiratory Failure - ARDS
• Prone position, NO, Prostacycline, ECMO
• Weaning from the ventilator
• Sedation in intensive care patients
• Outcome studies in anaesthesia and intensive care • Therapeutic hypothermia
• Septic shock: from pathophysiology to management
• Vasopressors and inotropic agents in clinical practice
• Blood flow in the gastrointestinal tract
• Long-term outcomes after critical illness
• How to manage an academic department